In today’s recent session, 0.89 million shares of the Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AKBA) have been traded, and its beta is 0.77. Most recently the company’s share price was $2.30, and it changed around -$0.04 or -1.92% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $599.52M. AKBA at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $2.89, offering almost -25.65% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $0.80, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 65.22% since then.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.00. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended AKBA as a Hold, whereas 3 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AKBA) trade information
Instantly AKBA has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.92% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 2.48 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 7.26%. The company’s shares are currently up 20.79% year-to-date, but still down -5.56% over the last five days. On the other hand, Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AKBA) is 29.66% up in the 30-day period.
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $6.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 64.62% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AKBA is forecast to be at a low of $6 and a high of $7.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 32.58%.
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Akebia Therapeutics Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in June.
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